## THE STRUGGLE AGAINST HUNGER

NOTES TO V. A. SMOLYANIINOV.
I  * * 
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25/VIII [1921] 
Comrade Smolyaniinov!
Show this to Krasin, Frumkin, Kamenev. In my opinion, this is not serious, and it's not worth moving this forward *.
Lenin.

The reference is to a memorandum from one of the members of the section of the Petrograd Committee for Aid to the Starving, in which it was proposed to denationalize the milling bank and mills in order to obtain credits abroad for purchasing food for the starving.

II
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To Smolyaniinov, copy to Bryukhanov.
August 31, 1921

There is a telegram from Ankara dated August 12, reporting that a decision of the Majlis¹ has been made to place all available state grain from the Tamsun district at my disposal for our hungry Russian brothers. I request that you liaise with the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs and the Commissariat of Foreign Trade to clarify the factual aspects of the matter and to undertake urgent measures.

1 Majlis — The Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the parliament.

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NOTE TO L. B. KAMENEV
4/IX [1921]

Comrade Kamenev!

Probably the Hoover shipments are going to this gubernia as well.²

Lenin.

1 The note was written by Lenin at the end of a letter from a school worker of a Chuvash school in Simbirsk gubernia, I. Yakovlev, complaining of the actions of the food organs, which are preventing the population seeking bread from leaving the gubernia. The letter bears the notation: "to archive".

* On the document there is an order from V. A. Smolyaniinov: "Make copies of the whole thing and send them. Instead of Frumkin — to Bogdanov. August 27". — Ed.

** Printed from a typescript copy. — Ed.